(The other board where this game was running just miraculously was restored, after many months when everyone was convinced that the data were lost.
So now it looks as if -- rather fittingly, given the themes of this story -- there will be two alternative versions of the game running simultaneously.
I'm going to have to ask that people in this thread resist the temptation to look up the answers to any puzzles there! If you do, please don't spoil them for others...
For one thing, some of the story is different, and for another, there may be traps.)
The Human Side had hit another impasse. Both the Humans of 2021 and of 2011 had found the second clue on the page to be truly baffling. They had narrowed the answer down to two possibilities, but further progress eluded them.
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Sodium11 --> Sodium has an atomic number of 11
If what's between brackets needs to be 17, then the blurred word should be Carbon (which has an atomic number of 6).
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Just as TimovieMan had speculated, the humans of 2011 pulled out a periodic table and looked for clues. But the atomic numbers seemed to be a dead end -
carbon had nothing to do with the answer.
Then, looking at the table, Ocean Zweidler saw the answer. "Of course... ah! Why didn't I
think of that?"
